Well for one thing we have 50% more people mainly as a result of immigration.
I believe much of the problems we face in education are due to liberalism/leftism which has given us the following:
1. Creation of the Dept of Education
2. Banishing the Bible & Ten Commandments from public life
3. The rise of the welfare state,
4. Political Correctness
Kate Millett and her cabal played a major role:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3630027/posts
And the so called MSM fuel the flames. I was born in 1964 also. We have very few true reporters today. Most are partisan hacks spewing out hatred, not news. Their intense dislike for anything that they don’t agree has infected our culture.
No social media provocateurs/networks, a semi-independent news philosophy and media companies that had actual news reporters existed back then.
Now all you need is a website, a catchy handle and bada beem bada boom, You too can be a “reporter”/instigator.
I agree with most everything posted here as to the causes. I would add that it’s not just school shootings - you can see the moral decay in everyday life. Video posted on the internet showing kids beating defenseless younger children, or outnumbering another 10 to one and no one steps in to help. The left dividing us into groups and pit us against each other. There are many reasons. What would it hurt to allow God back into our schools? Even if you aren’t a believer, it can’t hurt and it just might help.
What happened? 1973 happened. When a society not only legalizes the killing of the most innocent and helpless amongst them (i.e., infants), but encourages and applauds it, as well, that society is capable of any abomination.
Society said Spanish is bad. But my daddy spanked me, I learned actions had reactions.
The Cleavers no longer exist, they are gone with Ozzie and Harriet, and the new Fathers no longer know anything, The new dads were raised in a cookie cutter education system. The metro sexual male is becoming prevalent, no one wants to be held responsible for their actions, too many want to lay back and be spoon fed. You have age 30+ men today who act like they are still 15. Its like they put something in the drinking water to remove one’s will to do anything. They want the Gov’t taking care of everything while they sit at the starting line waiting for the race to finish so they can get their participant trophy.
Progressives. Progressives have shaped the greater society. That society churns out psychopaths. Sooner or later they crack. We are lucky that many end up in jail, multiple times.
Answer seems simple enough.
Mothers have careers instead of taking care of their kids.
God and praying removed from schools.
Many of the other reasons + Cultural relativism...
Moral decline.
Divorce. Broken families. Fatherless homes. Rampant illegitimacy.
Violence on TV desensitizing children to it.
Lack of discipline in the home.
Lack of discipline at school.
Lack of religion.
Lack of manners and civility.
We are being Balkinized, fractured into many disparate ethnic groups that keep to themselves and distrust other ethnic groups.
Rampant corruption goes unpunished so people are emboldened to take all they can whether it is right or morally wrong.
We are a culture in steep decline and the symptoms are everywhere. There is no putting the genii back in the bottle. Once you are in the grips of a moral decline, there is no way to reverse it. Lazy people don’t want to be told to work. Decadent people don’t want to be told to restrain themselves from indulging in vices. People don’t want to be told to fight temptation rather than give in to it.
As in the days of Elijah, Satan’s plan to draw people away from God has been hugely successful. You can see it in the libs today - so much hate toward anything of God, so much respect for godless mohammedans and communists. As in Elijah’s time a remnant has been preserved that has not and will not bow the knee to Satan. Soon either Jesus will come back or a new Elijah will be revealed to challenge and destroy Satan’s minions.
Doing things that are right, brings on the right outcome. doing things obama’s way.. the way of the left... was dooming us as a nation. They have taken over for to may years and this is what we are living in.
You can argue all you want about everyone’s rights... gay’s rights, etc... and go ahead and make room for all their rights..that’s what the government did.. and smothered out the Christian rights... which produced what you have now compared to what I grew up in when government did not tell us what we had to do and not do.. plus respect for the persons in charge of a class or such.. that person was not like today.. they were all pretty much guided by Christian principals and those work!
Believe it or not, giving rights to the gay crowd, does not produce the outcome you want.. giving rights to the athiest does not prove a good thing... look around and see that the Christian influence is what has been taken out of our society.. like it or not.. light is light and darkness is dark indeed.
America was then a homogeneous nation in that people on the left and the right actually shared the same culture. While obvious differences in policy both sides claimed to love America and believe in the contitution. The arguments were over how. All professed to believe in the freedom of speech to resolve debates. What changed is twofold. One is that there is a vast amount of people in America that openly hate the above beliefs and hate America. Second an elite class arose that also could care less about the nation. Fragmented cultures kill themselves until one side triumphs. Hopefully that will be us who still love the nation.
Also, the welfare state destroyed fatherhood. I work in social services and the unspoken elephant behind almost every tradegy I see, and I see a lot in my work every single day, is the lack of a father figure in a child’s life trust me on this one. Also lack of God in the homes. Children raised with the loving wIird of the lord God and fathers in thier lives simply do not become monters.
later
war on God and Christian worldview by libtards
1. God out of schools/ government/ and society.
2. Men destroyed for being men in our schools and in society in general. The MSM depicts men as bumbling idiots. Comparing Father Knows Best to the Cosby show for example.
3. Ending the draft. Men serving in the military forced many of them to grow up and trained them valuable life skills, like how to work. So instead, men went on to higher education, which brainwashed them into the liberal mindset.
4. Common sense was common back in the 50s and 60. Kids today rarely have a lick of sense.